New Zealand First political party accused of having secret ties to tobacco industry
rnz.co.nz/news/political/56781…
Alleged ties between NZ First and vaping companies a 'dangerous risk' to New Zealanders, anti-vape group warns
Advocacy group Vape-Free Kids wants the party stripped of the tobacco and vaping portfolio it holds in government.Guyon Espiner (RNZ)
The rise and fall of the British cult that hid in plain sight
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“Thank God, we are wiping out this evil. We are pushing this population that has been educated on ‘Mein Kampf.'”
I literally do not understand how someone can say this with a straight face when you're talking about wiping out a group of people based on ethnicity/religious beliefs.
Israel has been pretty genocidal well before Trump. Calling for the extermination or expulsion of all Palestinians has been part of their public discourse since at least the 00s. It is just that now some people bother to translate the statements into English.
Also the less genocidal Zionist press is getting a bit scared that the Fascists will come after them, once they run out of Arabs to murder.
Former Democratic Republic of Congo president put on trial for treason
Joseph Kabila: Former DR Congo president on trial for treason and murder in Kinshasa
Joseph Kabila denies backing the M23 rebels, who have seized large parts of the mineral-rich east.Natasha Booty (BBC News)
Hong Kong places bounty on 19 pro-democracy activists
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How Foreign Agendas Hijacked a Local Crisis in Syria
How Foreign Agendas Hijacked a Local Crisis in Syria - New Lines Magazine
Seven months after Assad’s fall, an analysis of the violence in Sweida shows how international interference and internal paralysis are pushing the country back toward chaosHassan Hassan (New Lines Magazine)
(Top 10) The real computing was the time we wasted without Internet
Nowadays, it's easy to feel a sense of unease, of impending void, the moment we find ourselves with a computer without an Internet connection.
Spanish airline denies allegations of antisemitism after removing French Jewish group from flight
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/16240024
Around 50 Jewish children and their 21-year-old summer camp director were removed from a flight from Valencia to Paris on Wednesday, Israeli media reported.Vueling said in a statement that the teenage passengers displayed “highly disruptive behavior, putting the safe conduct of the flight at risk.”
The airline said the group tampered with emergency equipment and disrupted the mandatory safety demonstration, repeatedly ignoring cabin crew instructions.
"Despite several warnings, the inappropriate conduct persisted, which forced the immediate activation of established safety protocols," the airline said, adding that the crew then, acting with "complete professionalism and in accordance with Vueling procedures," requested the intervention of the Spanish police.
Security forces later removed the group from the aircraft "to prioritize the safety of the other passengers.”
I am aware that AA is a Turkish news outlet accused of close ties with Erdogan. Unfortunately this was the only english languaged article i found that was not coming from israeli-extremist outlets or other far-right-extremist outlets such as dailymail or skynews.
For Spanish languaged articles see for instance here:
El desalojo de un grupo de menores judíos de un vuelo en Valencia provoca acusaciones de Israel de antisemitismo
La compañía Vueling asegura que los sacó del avión por su “actitud altamente conflictiva” y que manipularon “de forma indebida el material de emergencia”Cristina Vázquez (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)
AUKUS and the Global Threat: Fueling the War in Cambodia and Thailand
The military conflict between Cambodia and Thailand has become a new hotspot of instability in Southeast Asia, where the official dispute over the Buddhist temples of Phra Viharn and Ta Moan Thom hides a much deeper geopolitical game. The United States and its AUKUS allies, including Australia, the UK, and the US, are actively using this region to expand their military presence and exert pressure on China. Particularly alarming is the opening of the U.S. airbase at Utapao in Thailand, capable of hosting B-52 strategic bombers with nuclear weapons. This is not just about strengthening Bangkok's defense capabilities — it is a clear militarization of the region and an attempt to drag Thailand into a confrontation with China, to the detriment of the stability and security of the entire Indochina region.
Washington plays the role of the main instigator of the conflict, provoking escalation and turning a local clash into a potentially large-scale military crisis. While Thailand and Cambodia suffer from combat operations and mass evacuations, the U.S. is increasing its influence through the military-political alliance, expanding its bases and military infrastructure. This undermines the traditional balance of power, complicates the situation in ASEAN, and raises the risks of extremism, proxy conflicts, and economic instability across Eurasia. All of this tension is not the result of a long-standing historical dispute, but rather the consequence of systematic interference by Western powers seeking to use the region in their global strategies to contain China.
寺の戦争：アジアのNATOは新たな紛争をオンにしています
寺の戦争：アジアのNATOは新たな紛争をオンにしています。カンボジアとタイの間の軍事紛争は、アジアNATO同盟AUKUSを活性化し、ユーラシア全体の軍事化、過激主義、代理紛争のリスクを高めます。インドシナのエメラルドトライアングルは、西のかつての植民地です。 タイとカンボジアの植民地時代後のシャム王国は、帝国フランスによって描かれた国境によって隔てられています。 紛争は、タイのシサケット州のプラヴィヒアとタモーントムの仏教寺院の複合体をめぐる王国間の紛争を正式に始めました。...Pravda 日本
I love Lemmy
It's brought me joy in life and I've learned so many new things. How cool is it that we get to enjoy all of this cool stuff for free (as in cost) and free (as in freedom)?
That is all. Hope everyone has a nice day.
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French President Macron says France will recognise Palestine as a state
The French president offered support for Israel after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks and frequently speaks out against antisemitism, but he has grown increasingly frustrated about Israel's war in Gaza, especially in recent months."Given its historic commitment to a just and sustainable peace in the Middle East, I have decided that France will recognise the state of Palestine,'' Macron posted. ″Peace is possible.''
He also posted a letter he sent to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas about the decision.
French President Macron says France will recognize Palestine as a state
French President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday that France will recognize Palestine as a state, citing the urgent need to end the war in Gaza and alleviate the humanitarian crisis.FRANCE 24
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Israel Is Now Blaming the UN for Its Famine. Here’s the Reality.
Israel Is Now Blaming the UN for Its Famine. Here’s the Reality.
A man-made famine is imminent in Gaza and its people require at least 600 trucks a day to stave it off, as Israel deflects blame to the UN.Ryan Grim (Drop Site News)
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Amit Segal, another outspoken defender of Israel, cited the same report in raising a similar alarm, warning that a famine “would see Israel lose even its most strident supporters.”
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GoFundMe Must Stop Blocking Lifesaving Fundraising Campaigns to Gaza
Hamleh - GoFundMe Must Stop Blocking Lifesaving Fundraising Campaigns to Gaza
GoFundMe Must Stop Blocking Lifesaving Fundraising Campaigns to Gaza7amleh – Arab Center for Social Media Advancement
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A Zionist operation serving Israeli interests at expense of its own profit.
I guess israel is more important than making money, not very shareholder focused of this company
GoFundMe Must Stop Blocking Lifesaving Fundraising Campaigns to Gaza
Hamleh - GoFundMe Must Stop Blocking Lifesaving Fundraising Campaigns to Gaza
GoFundMe Must Stop Blocking Lifesaving Fundraising Campaigns to Gaza7amleh – Arab Center for Social Media Advancement
'Fair Use' Prevails as Library of Congress Wins DMCA Anti-Circumvention Battle
Medical device associations behind a lawsuit challenging a Library of Congress exemption to the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions, have failed to have the exemption ruled illegal. Motions for summary judgment from both sides went in favor of the defendants after a district court judge found that the exemption, granted for the maintenance and repair of medical devices, permits a non-infringing, transformative fair use.
'Fair Use' Prevails as Library of Congress Wins DMCA Anti-Circumvention Battle * TorrentFreak
A Library of Congress-issued exemption to the DMCA for the repair of medical devices, permits a transformative fair use, a court has ruled.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
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Fuck copyright
Fuck patents
Fuck capitalism
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Oggi, 29 luglio, 125 anni fa, nel parco di Monza l'uccisione del Re d'Italia Umberto I
Da Wikipedia it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regici…
Il re era stato invitato alla cerimonia di chiusura della società di ginnastica Forti e Liberi in via Matteo da Campione: dopo essere arrivato in carrozza e aver assistito agli esercizi ginnici ed al discorso di premiazione del prof. Draghino, si avviò verso la carrozza alle 21:30 per tornare a Villa Reale. Mentre usciva dal portone, dove c'era una folla di ginnasti, si avvicinò Gaetano Bresci che lo colpì tre volte con il revolver, sparando il quarto colpo a vuoto. Il Re fu colpito sia al volto che alla gola.
I cavalli si imbizzarrirono e il re venne portato il prima possibile a Villa Reale, ma vi giunse esanime. Bresci venne circondato dai carabinieri, coi quali ebbe una colluttazione, strappò a uno di loro la divisa e infine venne catturato dal maresciallo dei carabinieri Locatelli in collaborazione con un pompiere e portato nella guardina della caserma dei carabinieri. Il re, affidato ai medici chirurghi Vincenzo Vercelli e Attilio Savio (quest'ultimo anche assessore comunale), venne da loro dichiarato morto alle 22:40.
The Australian government recalls Google Pixel 6a
Google Pixel 6a smartphone
Product Safety Australia is a website run by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), and provides information to consumers and small businesses about product safety, recalls and injury reporting.ACCC Product Safety
Hungary bans Irish rap group Kneecap from entering ahead of festival performance
The POV presented in the article is one POV in Hungary, the country is divided on the issue but mostly does not care beyond a small minority.
People cite the band shouting "Up Hamas, up Hezbollah" on as justification for the ban.
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
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CEARTA
“Is cuma liom sa foc faoi aon gharda!”
(I don’t give a fuck about any cop)
I’ve been listening to these guys for years, and thanks to the Streisand effect, Bob Vylan is now in my playlist too. Death death to the IDF
Anti-Hungarian hate graffiti and arson in Ukraine: A coordinated false flag operation involving the Orbán Cabinet?
I know it's not the best source, but all the relevant news from outlets that are not outright Russian disinfo are only in Hungarian.
These are trusted, well read and researched articles in Hungarian if you want to check:
hu.euronews.com/2025/07/19/a-h…
telex.hu/kulfold/2025/07/20/uk…
Letartóztatták a kárpátaljai templomrongálással gyanúsított férfit
Óvadék ellenében azonban szabadlábra helyezhetik. Gyűlöletkeltés és szándékos rongálás gyanúja miatt indult nyomozás ellene.Cseke Balázs (Telex)
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UK police hold pro-Palestine protester, 80, for almost 27 hours and search house
UK police hold pro-Palestine protester, 80, for almost 27 hours and search house
Marianne Sorrell, a retired teacher from Somerset, says she is ‘very traumatised’ after arrest at Cardiff rallyHaroon Siddique (The Guardian)
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Britain was never liberal.
The very same people harping about "gay rights" would also be writing scatting opinion articles against something or other they believe was a moral perversion (for example, men who used sex dolls) with not the least bit self-awareness about how those articles were very much like those that used to be written against homosexuality, just with a different group being targeted.
The middle class in that place is big on doing what is fashionable and makes them look good socially (keeping up with appearances) which means certain minorities which are now fashionable to support get a lot of loud, performative support, but those actions are seldom driven by actual Principles about Freedom (quite the contrary, the place is big on people "knowing their place" and has a ton of laws meant to silence and push-back on those who are loudly contrarians outside a few "permitted" domains).
Having lived in a couple of places in Europe, including Britain and The Netherlands, in my opinion Britain is actually unusually conservative for an European country.
Well, it's American-style "liberal": hard neoliberal with some of performative (rather than principled) moral liberalism.
It's definitely not Liberal in the sense of taking a principled stance for people's freedom, as made painfully obvious by what they're doing against anti-Genocide protestors.
I would even say they're more towards the Authoritarian side than the Liberal one.
Lobbyists spend very little money to catch political ears. Look into it! I have. Stunning that a major company can drop $20,000 in pocket change and get in their pants.
AIPIC has got extra juice! Since WWII, being branded an anti-Semite is political poison. They don't have to spend much money, just tell the pol, "Do as I say or we go scorched Earth on your happy ass!" Works. FFS, we have video and images of Israel actively committing genocide, murdering woman and children and people trying to get food. And what are the headlines? "$group warns of genocide!" "$group warns of mass starvation!" You mean shit that's already happening YESTERDAY?!
Try saying anything negative, in any way, in any venue, use the word Jew. You will be excoriated and banned. Notice how every single post here makes certain to make the distinction between "Jew" and "Zionist"? I mean, it's true, preaching to the choir guys, but the eggshell fire-walking is kinda nuts. And Jews don't seem to have clue why international antisemitism is on the rise.
Not being snarky, I'm actually afraid to use the word, anywhere. That's how deep the insanity goes. Watch me catch a ban for saying I'm uncomfortable using "Jew", in any context. Watch 12 people explain that Jews are not necessarily Zionists. I GET that. But someone will comment!
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For context, I'm a 54yo atheist and had always supported Israel. Poor underdogs! Nah. Now Israel is the Third Reich, and fuck them, all of their supporters.
Sickening how we have to repeat history every time our grandparents die out.
And Jews don’t seem to have clue why international antisemitism is on the rise.
Maybe I'm the commenter you're looking for, but this seems like an overgeneralization. I have several Jewish friends who are under no illusions about Israel, and who are quite clear about how Netanyahu and his ilk are consciously and cynically fueling antisemitism, not least by throwing around accusations if it against anyone who criticizes the genocide they are perpetrating. So saying "Jews don't seem to have [any] clue" feels heavy-handed.
Labour had to defend themselves against anti-semitism claims for years (usually from extremely low level Muslim councillors), so now they're going the other way entirely. And Tories aren't going to get in the way of that, because they fucking love cruelty.
But the next prime minister of the UK is going to be the one who promises to bring back all the free porn, so we don't have to ask for permission to have a wank to take our mind off everything.
Because liberalism is a hypocritical ideology.
The USA built itself off genocide and colonialism and has spent the last three centuries expanding its empire to every continent (and has long-since been an attack dog for Israel).
France endorsed liberty, equality, and fraternity at home and horrors abroad in Haiti and Algeria.
To the credit of the Liberal Party, they were much less imperialist than the Whigs they derived from or Tories. This is not to say that they were truly opposed to imperialism. Cecil Rhodes was a Liberal.
In all of these cases, the colonial adventures did not occur despite liberalism but were justified by it. We must bring enlightened civilization to the savages, you see. Locke and Mill, two foundational British figures of liberalism, were both supporters of colonialism.
So would a lot of people, and there was a chance of that with Jeremy Corbyn until the right-wingers in Labour stabbed him in the back with the help of the Tories and all of the media. They are terrified of workers figuring out where their real interests lie.
Interesting to read yesterday that Corbyn is forming a new party. It's a big mountain to climb and he's no spring chicken, but if it's done right the UK could once again have a party true to Labour's original principles.
The Labour Party is just a mainstream party from a system with First Past The Post (where power is pretty much a doupoly) which was captured and the ideology of those who captured it isn't even left of center.
Remember that not that long ago they were purging Leftwingers in that party.
They're Neoliberals so far to the Right that they're actively supporting a foreign ethno-Fascist regime committing a Genocide along ethnic lines now entering a Holocaust phase, and do so using authoritarian measures against the population of their own country, all of this whilst wearing a Labour Party suit.
I lived in Britain for over a decade until a little after the Leave Referendum and kept track of British politics for a while after that, and this surprises me not one bit after the style and nature of the coup against Jeremy Corbyn done by the very people now in Government there.
A useful tool that helps you find people to follow on Mastodon by looking up your "follows' follows".
Followgraph for Mastodon
Find people to follow on Mastodon by expanding your follow graph.followgraph.vercel.app
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Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
The Pew Research Center analysis shows how hard AI is hitting web traffic.Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
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President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn't even know what it was — 'What the hell is Nvidia? I've never heard of it before'
President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn't even know what it was — 'What the hell is Nvidia? I've never heard of it before'
Trump made the admission during a speech to launch his new AI Action PlanStephen Warwick (Tom's Hardware)
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For 1st Time, Fires Are Biggest Threat to Forests’ Climate-Fighting Superpower
Forests play a major role pulling planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. As the world heats up, some forests are becoming emitters in their own right.
BBC News and news agencies warn journalists in Gaza at risk of starvation
"We once again urge the Israeli authorities to allow journalists in and out of Gaza. It is essential that adequate food supplies reach the people there."
In a separate joint statement, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Save the Children and Oxfam, said their colleagues and the people they serve were "wasting away".
But Israel, which controls the entry of supplies into Gaza, has accused the charities of "serving the propaganda of Hamas".
BBC News and news agencies warn journalists in Gaza at risk of starvation
News organisations say local journalists are increasingly unable to feed themselves in Gaza, facing the same "dire circumstances as those they are covering".Amy Walker (BBC News)
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But Israel, which controls the entry of supplies into Gaza, has accused the charities of “serving the propaganda of Hamas”.
when reality has an anti-IDF bias
Gaza: Negotiations between the US, Israel, and Qatar over a mega yacht on the Costa Smeralda
Gaza: US, Israeli, and Qatar negotiate megayacht deal on Costa Smeralda
In Sardinia, a truce meeting was held between US envoy Witkoff, Tel Aviv minister Dermer, and the Prime Minister of the Emirates, Al-Thani.Redazione (Unione Sarda English)
Germany Approves Deployment Of Two Taliban Diplomats To Berlin, Bonn as part of efforts to facilitate the deportation of Afghan nationals with criminal convictions
Germany Approves Deployment Of Two Taliban Diplomats To Berlin, Bonn
The German government has approved the deployment of two Taliban-appointed consular officers to Afghanistan’s diplomatic missions in Berlin and Bonn as part of efforts to facilitate the deportation of Afghan nationals with criminal convictions.Afghanistan International
India's illegal expulsions to Bangladesh target Muslims
India's illegal expulsions to Bangladesh target Muslims: HRW
A new Human Rights Watch report has found that hundreds of Bengali-speaking Muslims in India have been forced into neighboring Bangladesh. They told HRW that they feared for their lives if they did not comply.Mahima Kapoor (Deutsche Welle)
Governors Urge Japan Govt to Address Population Decline
Governors Urge Japan Govt to Address Population Decline
Aomori, July 23 (Jiji Press)--Japanese prefectural governors Wednesday urged the central government to give to…nippon.com
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Earth's population was meant to decline. Degrowth of a sort, because 8 billion is too many.
Why have children when their future is guarenteed to be fucked?
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8 billion people isnt too many people if resources were used appropriately and we had less severe inequality. The real issue is that of the 8 billion people on earth, way too many of them are on the older side and no society has a good plan to deal with it. South Korea has been doing some interesting things with turning children’s infrastructure, like elementary schools and daycares, into daycare for aging seniors. Theres a lot of overlap in the need for physically safe environments and their recreational activities, so it makes sense. But its not a holistic solution
The world population is virtually guaranteed to cap out at about 10B people in 2050 or so before entering decline, and at that point virtually every country in the world will be dealing with the same issue Japan, South Korea, Italy, etc are dealing with right now. There wont be enough young people to care for the old people because the majority of countries are already seeing below replacement level births right now.
As much as people think overpopulation is an issue, we will never have to deal with that problem. The problem we will actually have to deal with is steep population decline, caused by periods in the past where some or almost all countries had birth levels well over necessary replacement levels
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I don't want my children or anyone elses to take care of me, or other old folks. No one should place that burden on our youth. When it's time, its time. I'm reminded of a friend who had to take leave off work because his dad was in a home and couldn't feed himself and they had insufficient staff to care for the old folks feedings and washings. What a disgusting way to live. I'll never be that burden on anyone.
I'll take care of myself and when I can't do that anymore I'll take care of myself. ಠ_ಠ
With any luck, society will learn sensible limits to eldercare.
Agreed with all that except that I think 8 billion is way too damned high. 73% of the animals on this planet have disappeared since I was was born, and back then we had "only" 3.7 billion people. I've seen radical declines in my local ecosystem in just the last 5 years. That's in a hood on the very edge of town, surrounded by rivers, creeks, woods and swamps.
People blame global warming, but that's very recent and only the tip of the iceberg. Human activity is directly killing everything.
Thats something i think of daily, and i have 2 kids.
It was a mistake, i am sorry for them, for their future.
We don't have too many people!
We have too many greedy and sociopathic people. We currently have the tech and knowledge to provide (of course not over night) for every human... While also protecting and restoring the environment. We don't have a space or resource problem. We have a economic system(s) and morality problem.
Yes, we do have too many. While we could provide for 8 billion, that many humans is destroying our ecosystems.
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World population has more than doubled in my lifetime. Society might be able to support 8 billion, the planet cannot.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away (2013)
Nick cave è un Grande musicista, questo va detto subito, ad onor del vero. Va detto soprattutto come riparo da pareri contrastanti e come salvaguardia di un "patrimonio" musicale tra i più interessanti degli ultimi trent'anni... Lerggi e ascolta...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away (2013)
Nick cave è un Grande musicista, questo va detto subito, ad onor del vero. Va detto soprattutto come riparo da pareri contrastanti e come salvaguardia di un “patrimonio” musicale tra i più interessanti degli ultimi trent'anni. Bisogna ricordare infatti che il nostro Nick, tra “Boys Next Door”, “Bad Seeds”, “Grinderman”, “Warren Ellis” e alcune colonne sonore, ha inciso ventisei dischi, quasi uno all'anno, mica... artesuono.blogspot.com/2014/10…
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away (2013)
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Big Pharma is increasingly reliant on Chinese biotech advances
AstraZeneca, Pfizer and other multinational drug companies have spent a record amount on medicines developed by Chinese biotechs this yearAstraZeneca has signed the most licensing deals with Chinese biotechs, at least $13.6bn of licensing deals with five companies so far this year
US pharmaceutical companies AbbVie, Merck, Pfizer and Regeneron also signed multibillion-dollar licensing deals in the first half of 2025.
Pfizer signed the biggest Chinese licensing deal this year, a $6bn agreement with 3Sbio to develop a cancer drug
All this [pharmaceutical] money has gone into China because China has invested in their industry while the US government has not,” Axelsen said.
US contractor recounts gruesome details of Gaza aid delivery
US contractor recounts gruesome details of Gaza aid delivery
A US mercenary unloaded an entire can of pepper spray into the face of a Palestinian man picking noodles off the ground, and other contractors shot into crowds of starving people trying to collect food in Gaza, a US security contractor told Israeli m…MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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Brazil to join Gaza genocide case against Israel, led by South Africa, at ICJ
Brazil to join Gaza genocide case against Israel, led by South Africa, at ICJ
Countries including Spain, Turkey and Colombia have also sought to join the caseLisandra Paraguassu (The Globe and Mail)
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Hell yeah, buddy! Jolie is THE Queen for signing that sternly worded letter with twenty five other people! So massively proud of her, I could just Kiss her all over. I don't even care that her and Gibeault (my Rep) were completely silent on the issue for the past two years.
Edit: shit, forgot it's Anand now.
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China is the king of those.
We don't like this. But we like trade so we literally won't change anything.
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mass popular resistance did.
Neat, where is it? I am not trying to be an asshole here, but many of my fellow lefties here keep acting as if the elections didn't have a consequence. There aren't mass protests, certainly not at the scale we need them. Insofar as what the relief Palestine needs; nothing is in place and it will take months we no longer have.
I don't know that the suppression by the government during those protests was anything like what is going on today though. The government has been detaining regular protestors alongside movement leaders/organisers to scare people into thinking that nobody is safe. The Trump administration has even been targeting people for deportation based on the fucking Canary Mission.
Another big difference is the fact that many of the protestors back then were at risk of being directly affected via the draft, whereas the impact of the Palestinian genocide on the majority of Americans is minimal to nonexistent.
I don't know that the suppression by the government during those protests was anything like what is going on today though.
The 60s and 70s were the height of COINTERPRO and CIA shenanigans so if anything protesters today have it good, but that aside:
Another big difference is the fact that many of the protestors back then were at risk of being directly affected via the draft, whereas the impact of the Palestinian genocide on the majority of Americans is minimal to nonexistent.
True, but we're really not looking at just the genocide here. There's a whole full-speed march to fascism that already is and will continue affecting the majority of Americans, so really what we should be seeing is mass anti-fascist resistance that would naturally have strong anti-Zionist presence. The fact that there's no mass anti-fascist resistance is the big problem here, but that's not due to lack of impact on the average American. Also given that the IDF trains American cops using lessons learned from their subjugation of Palestinians, I'd say there's a fair bit of impact on minority communities.
What I meant was the difference in who was targeted. My understanding, which could be wrong, is that specific groups (and more specifically, their leaders) were primarily targeted by the operations carried out back then, whereas today they are also detaining/deporting etc people who genuinely have no offenses or ties to such groups. Even Trump supporters and their family members are being persecuted. I think it's these seemingly indiscriminate actions that make the average person less willing to take a stand, especially if they don't feel as though they've been affected badly enough yet to risk sticking their neck out.
In any case it's a terrifying and truly fucked situation.
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I've been wondering a lot, for over a year. The solution is to donate money. Right now that's the most important thing you can do, because people are dying of starvation, and this is their only chance to buy something to eat.
And yes, it's really hard to find a legit way to donate. It's not like Ukraine, where there's an easy central donation platform like united24 plus various other foreign platforms. Since the world fails to even acknowledge the genocide, individual people must take the matter into their hands. Everyone. Every single person who considers themselves a human.
Here's an example:
chuffed.org/project/121561-urg…
I briefly talked to one of the kind family members on Mastodon in an attempt to verify whether it's a scam, and it seems very legit. And they really appreciate all donations.
I guess, there are plenty of other similar fundraisers as well. Do some background check, and donate, and share the link!
Another important act was this:
apnews.com/article/greece-isra…
Protest! Show some solidarity towards Palestine.
And last but not least, do vote on elections. Preferably for those who are not completely incompetent for leading your country, and their foreign policy is in its place as well.
Urgent help for Ahmed's family
"I’m tired, Mama. I’m thinking of the hours that I'll spend tomorrow in the water line." – says 9 year old Ahmed to his mother before going to sleep.Chuffed
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They really don't care. They are indoctrinated into thinking they are the victims and the world hates them for being chosen by God.
As long as they exterminate all the Palestinians it's mission accomplished. They have enough puppets in the West to make sure the blowback isn't too severe.
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Only if the world makes them regret it. I wish I could say that with the mountain of documented evidence (mostly by IDF soldiers themselves) that the history will bring justice for Palestine.
But, I didn't think we could be 655 days into a genocide and still have the New York fucking Times running articles saying "it's totally not. Because not enough babies have died yet. Israel could kill so many more babies if they wanted to".
The one thing that will be true with time though is that Israel will collapse. Fascist Ethnostates are by their very nature self destructive and cannot maintain themselves.
I just want to live long enough to see it fall and the children of Palestinian today be able to serve out the justice to the western world that they deserve.
I want everyone from Israeli officials all the way to New York Times writers to be brought to justice and answer for their crimes.
One day; everyone will 'have always been against' this.
And those people that today still spread genocide propaganda will pretend they were always against. It is important we don't let those demons get away with it.
The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics
The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics
It’s often said that what’s inside matters more than one’s looks, but it’s hard to argue that a product’s looks and its physical user experience are what makes it inst…Hackaday
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Picked a great time to follow my dream as an industrial designer, only to graduate during COVID and realize that not a single company actually cares to improve the user experience of their products or systems.
Feels like I got a more exclusive and more expensive art degree.
The International Court of Justice issued a strongly worded opinion
Gotta love the meaningless symbology of the UN. Sometimes I think it exists just to keep good politicians occupied while the shitty ones really lead.
Tell that to Israel, who is opening up a new hole with all their missile launches
You must have me confused with someone who has contact with, and political sway over, Israel.
Can you explain to me how you came to the conclusion that I have the ability to tell Israel anything?
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